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Performing the Border| 42mins
Director: Ursula Biemann | Producer: Ursula Biemann
Focus Years: 1999 | Country: Switzerland
Subject Tags: crime, europe, gender, human rights, society, switzerland, violence
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. Candid interviews with Mexican women factory and sex workers, as well as activists and journalists, are combined with scripted voice over analysis, screen text, scenes and sounds recorded on site, and found footage to give new insights into the gendered conditions inscribed by the high-tech industry at its low-wage end.

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